How recover file lost when Thunar crashed during cut-and-paste?

Genghis Khan genghiskhan at gmx.ca
Tue Feb 9 22:15:34 CET 2016


Hello,

I apologies for this late respond.

> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2016 at 5:30 PM
> From: "Erik Dobák" <erik.dobak at gmail.com>
> To: "Xfce general discussion list" <xfce at xfce.org>
> Subject: Re: How recover file lost when Thunar crashed during cut-and-paste?
>
> sorry for the bashing Genghis Khan and indirectly hit developers. let
> me rephrase it:

I am sorry for implying that you were bashing.
I just think conveying problems gently would be better.

> i know that the one who writes code makes mistakes. but in this case
> where you have the os commands cp and mv ready and stable would not it
> be better to use them instead of own functions?
> 

Yes, indeed so, but, by the way, I think it is glib/gio to blame.
I am doing an analogy from bug 12199.
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12199

> On 30 January 2016 at 18:26, Genghis Khan <genghiskhan at gmx.ca> wrote:
> > This bug disturbs me, too.
> >
> > I agree that this report is not good for the reliability of
> > Thunar; and yet, I do not see any good value in bashing the
> > developers, directly or indirectly.
> >
> > I think that using the word remiss towards the developers is
> > more than enough.
> >
> > A better manner to handle this issue is to subscribe to the
> > relevant bug report, and petition the developers about this
> > concern.
> >
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 10:58 PM
> >> From: "Erik Dobák" <erik.dobak at gmail.com>
> >> To: "Xfce general discussion list" <xfce at xfce.org>
> >> Subject: Re: How recover file lost when Thunar crashed during cut-and-paste?
> >>
> >> my copy paste experiences with Thunar forced me to use the command
> >> line and the cp command manually. i do not understand how can one
> >> screw up basic operations like cp and mv...
> >>
> >> On 20 January 2016 at 13:31, Ernest Adrogué <nfdisco at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > 2016-01-20, 12:16 (+0000); Mark Ballard escriu:
> >> >> I've been using Thunar intensely for years. So I'm aware of its recent bug
> >> >> infestation. It's no reason to jump ship though. It's not fatal. It just
> >> >> keeps bombing out. I got used to it being a bit temperamental lately.
> >> >
> >> > Actually it is kind of fatal because it may result in loss of data.  I think
> >> > it's pretty serious.  The XFCE team should warn users not to use Thunar for
> >> > moving files around until this issue has been addressed.  Just my opinion.
> >> >


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